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I was looking at some of these pictures
attached to the warrants for arrest.
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What pictures?
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There's Petersen,
before they operated on him.
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And here's Irene Hoffman.
She really was 16 once, wasn't she?
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Feldenstein.
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And here's the situation of a boy,
certainly couldn't have been more than 14.
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Executed for saying things
against the Third Reich.
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"By order of Justice Friedrich Hoffstetter. "
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If I may say so, more pertinent
to the legal basis of the case...
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I have the opening address
of the French prosecutor...
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before the International Military Tribunal.
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"It is obvious that in the state organized
along modern lines...
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"responsibility is confined
to those who act directly for the state.
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"Since they alone are in a position to judge
the legitimacy of the given orders...
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"they alone can be prosecuted. "
2:37:58
I have another
from Prof. Jahrreiss' legal aspects...
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Trial of the Major War Criminals.
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On the basis of these, I don't see
where the prosecution has put forth...
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a really clear-cut case against the defense
pertaining to the charges in the indictment.
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Regardless of the acts committed...
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we cannot make the interpretation
that these defendants...
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are really responsible
for crimes against humanity.
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What do you think, Dan?
2:38:26
We've been going over these points all day.
If it isn't clear now...
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Aren't you going to look
at these precedents?
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Aren't you interested at all?
2:38:39
Yes, I'm interested, Curtiss.
2:38:42
You were speaking of crimes
against humanity...
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saying that the defendants
were not responsible for their acts.
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I'd like you to explain that to me.
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- I've just been explaining it.
- Maybe.
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But all I've heard is a lot
of legalistic double-talk and rationalization.
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You know, Curtiss,
when I first became a judge...